Monday, December 20, 2010

So I have two potential competition concepts under development. Both are somewhere in the Phase III clinical trial stage, but limited resources are requiring us to choose which one to try to get over the goal line.

Thus, I'm asking the actual competitors (you guys) which one we should pick. But...I'm not sharing anything about either concept except its name. All else will be revealed in time.

These ESPN videos that you think are going to show you NFL highlights but end up showing you two talking heads behind a desk are TOTALLY KILLING ME. I'm learning not to click on any of your stupid non-highlight video links, ESPN.

A friend briefly worked as an editor for the clip videos on espn.com. He took perverse pleasure in how skewed he could make the highlight-to-unrelated content ratio. He once posted a game highlight video of a MNF Cowboys loss that featured about 15 seconds of game footage from a camara that was focused on the cheerleaders along with the remaining 5 seconds showing clips of John Maddon saying "boom!" He still sometimes wonders why he was fired so quickly.